Study: Encryption use increase largest in 11 years

Enterprise use of encryption saw the largest increase over the past year in over a decade, according to a report released today by the Ponemon Institute.
But encryption technology spending as percent of total IT security budgets has gone down, said John Grimm, senior director of security strategy at Thales e-Security, which sponsored the report.
In 2005, the first year of the report, only 16 percent of enterprises were using encryption extensively. The percentage increased gradually to 34 perce